iridaniotter [she/her]@hexbear.net to Soviet@hexbear.netEnglish · 3 months agoThe English website for the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center uses the Soviet TLDgctc.suexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up125arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up124arrow-down1external-linkThe English website for the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center uses the Soviet TLDgctc.suiridaniotter [she/her]@hexbear.net to Soviet@hexbear.netEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square1fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaresomeone [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 months agoYuri Gagarin’s office at this research facility is maintained as a memorial to him and to the earliest days of human spaceflight. There are several traditions for anyone flying to space from Baikonur. Signing Yuri’s guest book is one of them. Others are to plant a tree at the Cosmonaut Grove, and for everyone flying together to watch the movie White Sun of the Desert the night before launch.
Yuri Gagarin’s office at this research facility is maintained as a memorial to him and to the earliest days of human spaceflight. There are several traditions for anyone flying to space from Baikonur. Signing Yuri’s guest book is one of them.
Others are to plant a tree at the Cosmonaut Grove, and for everyone flying together to watch the movie White Sun of the Desert the night before launch.